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How Marvel Brings In Indie Directors For Blockbusters

...KevinFeige, became president of production for Marvel
Studios in 2007. In 2008, the success ofIron Man,directed by
JonFavreau, bolsteredFeige’squasi-insane and entirely
inspired plan for the MCU: a series of films that would — very much in the
style of comic-book series —tell interconnected stories that dovetailed
into huge event films likeThe Avengers.This
meant that, much as with writers and artists in comic-book series, the films
would require different directors to come in and create new chapters that are
both artistically compelling yet stylistically consistent with what has come
before and what is ahead."Wechoose from a pool of filmmakers not
who have done big, giant films before but who have done interesting things that
made us stop and go, ‘That’s cool,’” says Feige.